Latest Information - updated 15 May 2012
Don't forget our Behind The Scenes tour in 2012, make sure if you want to learn more about how the railway operates you book now!
Tickets for an Evening with David Shepherd are now available, come and join the North Norfolk Railway for a talk and private art exhibition by David, this event is in the evening of 16th June
A photo of Puffing Billy, visiting from Beamish Museum, is below. The engine visited us for the early May bank holiday weekend.
updated 11 May 2012
A further guest locomotive for our diesel gala has been announced. class 47, 47596 Aldeburgh Festival, will join the event from its normal base at the Mid-Norfolk Railway. This will give the event a particularly Eastern Region feel, with both class 47's being based at Stratford, an East Coast Deltic, a Norwich based 31 and DMU and a 25, often seen in the region.
updated 3 May 2012
Departure times for "The Titfield Thunderbolt" are now available, as well as a press release about the event.
Exactly sixty years after it was filmed, the evergreen Ealing comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt comes to life on the North Norfolk Railway. Billed as the most faithful re-creation of the film ever staged, Titfield Thunderbolt Live! promises to be a hugely entertaining tribute to English eccentricity.
Starring a 129-years-old carriage – sister to the one that played Mr Valentine’s (Stanley Holloway’s) bar car in the film – the event plays out famous scenes, including the “Enquiry Special” competition with the Bedford bus of the villainous Pearce & Crump.
The bar car will be hauled by the doughty black tank engine, with an antiquated wooden brake van exactly as in the film, the steamroller driven by Sid James will also be on hand.
Holt Station will become Titfield, and Sheringham the branch line terminus at Mallingford. The film opened with a dramatic shot of a streamlined mainline engine thundering over a bridge on the branch line – echoing that, a former Southern Railway streamliner named Tangmere will be bringing a charter train over the level crossing at Sheringham (sorry, Mallingford!) on the Saturday at about 2.15pm.
Organiser Oliver Fosker says: “I hope people will really get into the spirit and wear 1950s clothes and go back to that era.”
The film itself will have two special screenings on Friday 22nd June at Sheringham Little Theatre – 2.30pm and 7pm (pay at door or book on 01263 822 347).
Make sure you come along for this superb event!
Do you know what time it is?... Yes my love, time to head to Titfield Thunderbolt Live!
updated 24 April 2012
A visiting locomotive for our 2012 Diesel Gala has now been announced, in the form of 55019 Royal Highland Fusilier, one of the famous East Coast Deltics. Tickets are available in advance at a reduced rate, see the Diesel Gala page for more details. Even hard steam enthusiasts get a little excitied about Deltics! - So come along to experience 3,300 horsepower on our notorious Kelling Bank!
updated 11 April 2012
Details about our History Day on Wednesday 9th May 2012, have been released
When the railway arrived at Holt and Sheringham in 1887, it was the catalyst for rapid and far-reaching change. But what had at first seemed to be literally a permanent way in fact lasted less than a century.
How the railway waxed and waned, how William Marriott’s railway enterprise brought new hopes and business to Norfolk, how the railway battled on in the second World War, and why the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway could never make money – all these and more are themes of the North Norfolk Railway’s first History Day, giving a fascinating insight into the development of the region.
The event on begins in the Railway Institute at the entrance to Holt Station with special presentations by railway historian Adrian Vaughan and social historian Neil Storey. There will then be a visit to the Railway Cottage, a home created out of an 1899 railway carriage, and a tour of the William Marriott Museum, followed by a two-course lunch on the North Norfolkman dining train, hosted by Adrian and Neil.
This special event is limited to just 40 people, and tickets for the day are £29.50 per person, including lunch. Drinks can be bought on the train.
In the afternoon, there is an optional £5 tour of the railway’s workshops at Weybourne, limited to the first 20 of the History Day guests
For more details, and to book, telephone the General Office on 01263 820800
updated 18 March 2012
Some details about The Railway Cottage, at Holt station have been added, including 2012 opening dates and times.
We would like to thank everyone who visited us in 2011, we are able to announce that we carried 150,497 passengers in 2011, with an estimated 5000-6000 visitors who did not travel on a train, a big thankyou to you all, as well as all our volunteers and staff who made this possible. We hope to see you all again during the 2012 season!
updated 15 March 2012
Some photos from our recent Spring Steam Gala are now online, a big thankyou to everyone who came, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
updated 5 March 2012
A photo of the recent developments in the Holt goods yard is below, new for 2012 is a yard crane, located next to the William Marriott Museum
We are also excited to announce a new event for 2012. The 18th May will see the railway host a Victorian Evening, helping to celebrate 125 years of the Sheringham to Holt section of the Midland and Great Northern Railway.
Come along to Sheringham station to inspect this new fangled steam powered horse technology, and, if you dare (!) take a ride along the new railway to the town of Holt. The chief engineer Mr William Marriott esquire assures me that the new service will not exceed the speed of twenty-five imperial miles per the hour, so one can be assured of a safe passage. A talk has been arranged for travellers arrival at Holt, including how the railway can benefit us all in this rural part of the kingdom, from trade to tourism. The railway company will be providing entertainment to lift the spirits.
There will be a number of characters throughout the evening, detailing how the railway impacted upon Norfolk life, please feel free to come in period costume, refreshments will be available, however a Victorian Platter for two people, consisting of a selection of sandwiches, pork pie, scones & clotted cream and strawberries can be booked in advance (please order at the time of booking (at least 48 hours in advance)), and will be available on the train.
Please feel free to bring your children with you, as events from our education department help to broaden minds.
The train departs from Sheringham at 7pm, please arrive by 6.45 so we can depart on time, Mr Marriott will not be pleased by late arrivals!
The train ride itself is free, a Victorian platter is £12, for more information, and to book your place (we need to know how many coaches are needed!) please call 01263 820800 or email enquiries@nnrailway.co.uk
updated 3 March 2012
It is now less than a week until our Spring Gala weekend, which will see the return to traffic of B12 8572 after overhaul, a sneak peak is available below! Visiting locomotives 45337 and 4936 have now arrived and are settling in to Weybourne shed. We hope you are looking forward to our first event of the season as much as we are!
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B12, 8572, arrives back at Sheringham
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updated 20 February 2012
A passenger timetable for our Spring Gala is now available online
updated 16 February 2012
The full line up of visiting locomotive has been announced for our Spring Steam Gala, this will see the return to traffic of B12, 8572, as well as J15, 7564 in LNER black livery. The home fleet will be supported by visiting LMS 5MT, 45337, and GWR Hall Class, 4936, Kinlet Hall.
Details for lineside passes during 2012 have now been released, why not book yours now in time for our steam gala?
Visiting locomotives for the September Steam Gala are currently developing, with the first guest being confirmed (subject to availability) as 60163 Tornado, new build A1 class locomotive, built at Darlington in 2008.
updated 3 January 2012
Our first visitor has been booked for our Spring Steam Gala, LMS 5MT, 45337, further locomotives will be announced shortly.
Although the railway is not operating trains during the winter months, we're really busy behind the scenes to ensure 2012 is a year to remember at the North Norfolk Railway, with our 125th anniversary of opening occuring June, and the year also marks the 50th anniversary of the end of steam traction in East Anglia.
At present the workshops at Weybourne are currently overhauling Hunslet 1982, Ring Haw as well as J15, 65462. 92203 is undergoing winter maintenance, BSC 1700 Wissington is progressing and class 31, D5631 has had white bands added to complete its livery change to BR green. Hunslet Austerity 68030 has left the railway following a period on loan.
Two vehicles from our freight train, pasfruit D, 92097 and Southern brake van 55167 have entered the works for some bodywork repairs, which should see them take to the rails again in 2012.
Also, SO 4796 has left the railway, whilst chocolate and cream liveried BCK W21224 has arrived from Southall
updated 2 January 2012
The railway is now closed until Saturday 11th February 2012, the start of Half term, when we will be running our yellow timetable,
We would like to thank all our visitors in 2011 and look forward to seeing you again in 2012
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